Basket
About this object
Specific techniques
Joan Chapman is said to have used alder bark to dye her cherry bark black for the designs.
Physical description
Vase-shaped basket with a round base flaring slightly upward to a wide shoulder. Neck is narrow and round, with a wide lip holding an edge of wrapped bark bent into a scalloped pattern. Imbricated decoration is coloured light brown, dark brown, and red brown, and includes diamond shapes around the body edged by a single line surrounding base and shoulder, crosses between shoulder and neck, and a checkered pattern around neck.
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Materials
Date Made
1991
Date Acquired
15 Aug 2016
How Acquired
Donated
Credit Line
Measurements
Overall: 19 cm x 17.7 cm
Object Number
3194/17